And before you bemoan the fact that click-baiting lists are a dime a dozen online, consider the fact that it’s Esquire. And that Cayton-Holland is in some pretty fine company, including Chelsea Peretti, Moshe Kasher, Kyle Kinane, Tig Notaro and Rory Scovel. Also consider that the panelists choosing comedians for the list were Aziz Ansari, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Hardwick, Andy Kindler and Amy Schumer.

Cayton-Holland, in particular, got the shout-out from Hardwick, who runs the Nerdist podcast empire and who has welcomed Cayton-Holland as a guest on a recent episode.

“Every year in December, we do something called the Stand-Up Cluster on my podcast,” Hardwick told Esquire writer Adam K. Raymond. “We use it to expose our audience to comedians, and I had Adam on the second one, in 2011. He crushed.”

“I just got to Montreal just now and saw that (Esquire mention) online,” Cayton-Holland told me a few minutes ago via phone. “I’m here and it’s already surreal, even though I don’t have shows until tomorrow. I’m looking forward to performing and watching Ben Roy,” another Denver comic representing the Mile High up north.

As a longtime follower of his career, I’m psyched for the guy — provided he doesn’t forget my love of expensive, foreign chocolates and hand-tailored suits once he makes his first million in Hollywood.

Update: Score another one for Cayton-Holland this week. His interview with Denver-based writer Joel Warner just went up on Wired.com.

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